Prompted Eclectic Short Stories

In creating Prompted, Anila Syed has pulled together a collection of short stories she has written in response to writing prompts from various competitions over a period of 12 years. She covers a wide range of genres from romance, sci-fi, fantasy to political science and all points in between, over, under and back again.

Come and meet a magical black kitten, or how about The Creator of all things in a creation myth?
Why did an alien try to run a petting zoo, and how does a music buff, desperate to catch the latest download organise all his friends? - he's not that bright to be honest!

There is also a man transcending space and time as a result of a gift from the gods, an astronaut, disillusioned by time dilation, and some very naughty residents of a care home.

These 30 stories can be read in the order given, or dipped into from time to time.
Make new friends, find new adventures and then be inspired to write your own with the writing prompts at the end!

Past Present Future Fantasy Dystopian

• Black Kitten
• Bugexit Means Bugexit
• Caught in the Act
• Ben and the Pen of the Worlds
• Where Superheroes Go to Die
• How to Rob a Candy Store in Three Easy Steps
• Taxi Harold
• Congratulations, Gina, Your Name Was Chosen...
• How the flowers became
• Canoevia
• 2035 Cola-SG1
• Elena and the Fork of Justice
• Whispers of Eternity
• Synaesthete
• When Sally Met Harry
• Space, Adventure and Lithium Mining
• Beautiful Beard Day
• The Drive Home with Yellow Bread
• Alien Addiction
• The Stop of Alessa Cassalva
• Immortal
• Five Cheese and Pickles and the End of the World
• The Ring
• I, monster?
• Well!
• Sam's Cake
• Can Aliens Think on Their Tentacles?
• Rich!
• Prankster
• Vegan and the Vegetarian
• Embers
• Mars

Prompted, Short Stories by Anila Syed